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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10
TIE DEFICIENCY BILL.

The failure of the general deficiency
bill at the late session of Congress will,
it is to be apprehended, prove damper
upon the hopes and aspirations of sundry
ambitious towns throughout the country
in regard to free delivery of mail matter.
The act passed by Congress extended the
benefits of the free delivery system to all
towns of 10000 or more population, on
yielding postofiice revenues of $4,000 or
more per annum. But the deficiency bill
was to provide the means for carrying
the act into effect, and as the bill failed
the act is of no practical benefit at pres
ent. Several towns in Texas clearly en-
titled under said act) to free delivery
Will be affected. Among these may be
mentioned Waco, Gainesville, FL Paso,
Sherman and Denison. All these cities
have over 10, 900 population and contribute
more than 500 each per annum to the
revenues of the postotfice department.
Their people have been rejoicing over
the liberality of Cor gress, and looking
forward with confidence TO the inGugura-
ton at an early date OF the system. They
will simply have to exercise their patience
and wait until the expiration of the
present fiscal year, when it is said the
postotfice department can utilize the
regular appropriation and furnish the
much desired Improvement. This is only
one, however. of numerous important
acts that failed at the late session. The
President has been CLAIMED for the failure
of the deficiency bill, but it appears that
the conference committee of the two
Houses is really to blame, as it die not
reach an agreement in time to place the
measure before the executive and afford
him opportunity for the careful ex-
animation which the important nature of
the bill demsnded.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10
The Wool Growers Appeal.

CHICAGO, ILL, March THE Wool
Merchants Association Of Chicago mas
submitted to the joint western classical
ton committee a material petition for
classification Of wool, go as to place it in
the third class, it having been rated here
tofore as frst-class freight. The petition
will be signed by wool Merchants of Chi
cago, Milwaukee, st. Louis, Louisville,
Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Detroit and other small distributing
points in the west, also by wool mer-
chants of Boston, New York and Phila-
delphia. N addition thousands of
wool growers and shippers from interior
points throughout the west have already
signed the petition. These numerous
petitioners, it is claimed, represent an
annual handling of more thsn 500, 900, 900
pounds of wool. 1t is urged that the
wool growing industry has been during
the past few years greatly depressed, and
in many sections has proved disastrous.
The decline IN the value of wool during
the past fifteen years has been from So,
so, 70 and 40 cents to 80, %, 20 and 10
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10
Cnblin NOtER.

Correspondence of the Gazette.
DUBLIN, TEX, March IA very heavy
rain fell Saturday night and part of Sun
day. Rain in this section now is looked
upon as the only thing that can bring
this country back to its old stage OF pros
perity. This rain will make the grass
grow very fast If it stays warm as it is now
as the prairies were beginning to show
up green from the rains of several weeks
ago.
There is good deal of talk of improve
ment being done in our town as soon as
it is settled about the coming of the Fort
Worth and Rio Grende Railroad. THE
GAZETTE is watched eagerly for news
concerning it.
The new telephone line recently opened
between here and Stephenville is IN good
working ORDER, and there is some talk OF
running 1t on to Granbury and thence to
Fort Worth, as we are anxious to get
connection with such live city, both by
telephone and railroad.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10

cents per pound. The entire clip of the
United States during the past two years
has not paid to wool growers
an average price exceeding II cents per
pound, for the reason that the clip has
been reduced as variously estimated from
20 100000 to 25,OOO,OOO pouncs
during the past year, whereas,
had the business shown no &C
tual l)ss, the natural increase would
have been Is to % per cent. annually.
Should the petition be granted, it is
claimed it would give new life to discour-
aged growers, and do much to invjgorate
this languishing industry in the west.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10
CONVICTS MUST HAVE WORK.


Some of the northern papers are laud-
ing the convict system of the state of
| Texas, instancing the successful working
of the foundry and farm, which al this
profitable. While the question of prison
labor is not solved by this system, there
Is cause for Congratulation in the fact
that by it the unhappy prisoner has work,
and enforced idleness does not tempt
acts of cruelty on the part of his keepers.
The late investigation of the Illinois
Southern Prison lays bare not only cor
ruption among the officials, but most in
human treatment of the convicts, who are
helpless in the hand OF their tormentors,
and the official report fully sustains all
the charges which led to the investigation.
The best mode of dealing with law-break-
ers is q subject which has interested
all philanthropists since Howard by his
noble devotion first called out the sympa-
thies of those who iG q convict recognize
one of Gods creatures and one who may
be redeemed from the effects CT his own
evil dong, and that the law dealing with
crime should rather be schoolmaster
teaching him the right under proper re-
straint than tyraut to dominate his will
and harden his moral sensibilities Both
Auburn and Sing Sing are feeling the
effects of enforced idleness among the
prison inmates. Seven hundred men
thrown out of work in the latter peuiten-
tiary by the expiration of q contract are
begging for work, and pleading against
the misery of sitting in their cells from
day to day in idleness. In Auburn, where
this state of affairs has existed for year
and half, the increase of insanity has
been quadrupled and the need of disclp-
line much enhanced. On the
part of laboring men there has
been much outcry against convict
labor in trades, and while in some as
poets this may seem to work hardship TO
those outside prison walls, would not the
ing outside labor support imprisoned
idleness, and sending forth from the pen
itentiaries of the land from time to time
men broken in health and unable through
want OF skill to make living and take
their place among law abiding citizens?
Thus far the fam and foundry of Texas
have not worked hardly on free labor, as
land is plenty and there are few foundries
in the state, but these conditions do not
exist everywhere, and to condemn pris-
oners to work only at such trades as are
not in competition with free labor
is virtually to condemn the inmates
OF prison to do nothing which must be
done by some one. The question to be
settled is to adjust conflicting interests,
or decide whether the evils accruing from
denial OF work do not more than coun-
terbalsnce the benefits which are expect
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10
FROM ANY SOURCE

THE GAZETTE will receive and &C,
knowledge donations from any source for
the drouth sufferers. If funds are not
being raised in other towns where there
are parties who desire to help these peo-
pie buy seed, THE GAZETTE will be
pleased to add such contributions to its
list. THE GAZETTE is informed that oats
may be sown as late as March 10, and as
rapidly as funds accumulate from these
donations to buy seed the purchase will
be made. Without aid to procure seed
for planting these people will be as help
less in the future as they are now. 1t is
Cause that appeals to the generosity of
sill who are able to assist, and THE GA
zETTE will take pleasure in acknowledge
ing all donations.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10
A WATCH SWiNDLE.

\ New York Man Arrested by tho Postal
Authorities.
NEW YORK, March S.-For number
of months the postoflice authorities have
received complaints from all parts Of
the country about concern doing
business at No. IS, Maiden Lane
known as the Victor Watch Company,
which was flooding tie mails with circu
lars advertising cheap watches. Inspec-
tor Har;shorn disclosed the fact that the
concern was a gigantic swindle. 1t was
run by man named Charles West. He
advertised gold plated watches for Sc 80,
received the money and never sent the
watches. He was arrested to-day by the
federal authorities. West has made the u
sands Of dollars out of the scheme.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10

speaks Of the Impression made upon him
by The class photograph of the class of
'S6 at Smith College, as that of the face
of girl he would like to know, and to
whose care be would have no hesitsncy
children. Now as this portrait is the out
come of forty nine faces, if It were posi-
BILE to vitalize the image, what waste of
sweetness would be necessary to satisfy
insatiate man; and how many Yale and
Amherst classes would be sacrificed to
furnish lifting mate for this rare woman?
1t is ell very well to discourse Of women
as wives and mothers, but something is
expected Of man as husband and father.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10
ROME AND THE KNIGHTS.

luc hulSut5 Vi LdUOT, rs al OTSdulLa-
ton, have strengthened their position in
one important respect. They have
succeeded In convincing the Church Of
Rome that the organization does not
merit the suspicion and apprehension
with which it was undoubtedly viewed by
the church up to very recent period
Much of the credit for bringing ABOUT
this changed attitude of the church is
due to the earnest representations and
conservative course of Mr.. PowderlY,
himself q Catholic. The most potential
agent, however, was Cardinal Gibbons;
now in Rome. His visit there has had
the result of working decided change
in the views of the Pope concerning the
great American order of labor. Cardinal
Gibbons, so cable dispatches state, has
diligently impressed upon the Pope and
college of cardinals the fact that the
aims and tendencies of the Knights
have been misrepresented and misunder-
stood at Rome; that the order is
not secret or oath-bound in the nature
condemned by the church; that its work
ings are not calculated to prove subver-
sive of social and civil order; and finally
that as its membership is largely Catho
lie it has strong claim Tor Just and even
liberal treatment from the church. These
representations nave had their e65ct, and
If the Knights OF Labor order has not
made progress in any other direction it
has at least made its peace with Rome,
and can count with confidence on friend
illness from that quarter. And this is a
more important matter or advantage than
the superficial observer, especially il not
Catholic, will be inclined to regard it,
at first glance. The ban OF the church
would not have suticed, by any means, to
crush out or even disintegrate the order,
for the Protestant, non-Cstholic ele-
ment is perhaps in the ascendency,
taking the membership as a whole.
There would have been strong
IcduH W Sudp
its 1ngers at and bid defiance to the
church. But the alienation or even
lusewarmness of the Catholic element in
the order would have proved serious
drawback and left the organization in a
much less effective state Than it is now.
1t could i'll afford to lose It's Catholic
strength and the moral effect of the atti-
tude now assumed by the church cannot
fail to be benehcisl, in many ways, to the
Knights. Rome is always conservative
and the tacit Endorsement thus accorded
by the church to the purposes and work
ings of the Knights of Labor will be q
certificate of character, SO to say, that
will command the attention aud consid-
Grafton of society in this country and
Europe. 1t is an important point gained
by the order, and now if Mr.. Powderly's
wise policies and counsels have the
weight they ought to have with the rank
and file of the organization there will be
happiness, and let US hope more useful
days for the great Institution he has
built up.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10
DEATH SETTLES 1T.

A Deserted Husband Sues for Divorces but
Never Enters Court.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, March S -When the
case of Robert Niesen VS.. Dora Nieser
for divorce was called in the Circuit
court to-day the announcement was made
that the plqintiff had comnitted suicide
and the case was therefore dismissed.
Niesen, who was, a German carpenter
fifty years of age was deserted by his
wife some time ago, aud after he had
tiled his suit for divorce ne told his
friends that when the case come up
he would be dead. 1t was not supposed
however he would commit suicide, but
this morning he procured revolver and
fired five bullets into his body, killing
himself.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10

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Correspondence is solicited upon all ne'rs sub
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ingS Of general interest solicited, and tciH be prop
erly compensated.
Ill communications intended for publication
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dress-Rot for publicatiOH-but as an erldence o.
good faith
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personal to themselves ,cH please inctoSe stamp JoT
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l7hether or, business or for publication should be
addressed TO THE GAZETTE, or DEMOCRAT PUB-
LISTING Co, Fort Forth, Ter, AND NOT TO
IEDRIDUALs.
an checks, money orders, postal notes, ETC.,
should be made payable to the DEMOCRAT PUB
LISTING Co.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10
Ordinance No. I14.

ordnance NO. IA.
Be It ordained by the City Council of the city
IF Fort Worth, Tex.
Section l. No person, firm or corporation, or
the agent OF any such person, shall engage In
the busne of hauling off or removing filth
fgces, manure, slops, or other offensive mat
ter, Tor hire, except he be RI gular scayenger,
having procured the permit as hereinafter pro
yided for.
Sec. 2. Scayengers or any person doing any
of the acts defined in section Of this ordinance
shall before engaging in such business or occu-
patton, obtain written reTmit ON the chair
man of the BOsrd or Health allowing him to
engage In such svOcatiOn or business such
permit shall state the name and residence of
such person, together with description of his
team and vehicle, and such other facts as may
be required by the Board of Health. The same
shall not be transferable, and skan run for the
term OF three months.
Sec. 8. If any scayenger fhall remove his
place of residence he shall noiify the Board OF
Health in writing of such removal and the place
OF such removal. u
Sec. 4. All scayengers sban carry on their We
hicle green lantern, with shall be kept light
ed al all times when they are removing filth,
and kept In some conspicuous place on such
vehicle, g. shall procure and keep ol and at
tach to the horses or snimaIs used in draw
ing said vehicle. certain number of bells, the
number and size ofssame to be fixed by the
Sec. ). Any person or scavenger violating any
of the provisions OF this ord nance shall be
fined in any SUN mot exceeding s25, and shall in
OF Health forfeit his permit.
Sec. All ordinances and parts Of ordinances
in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
Ser. :. 7 h1t this OF din ance take effect and be
in force from and after It's publication as re
CURED bylaw.
Filed March ?, 1857. H. r. EARLY.
City Secretary.
Passed March 4, 1887. Recorded March 9,
1887. II r EARLY City Secretary.
This ordinance not having been approved nor
disapprovt within three days as prescribed by
q n ysaY nN aat I'll to eak AHa
IS II approved. H r. EARLY,
City Secretary
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10
ALTAR AND TOMB.
The Gazette's Record ofstbes Marriages
and Deaths in Texas.


! Samuel II. Edmonson enc Miss Tabitha
FRANKS, Gatesville, February q.
J Samuel Hale and Miss Mollie Morris,
Tovah February "a.
Charles LIE Moline and Miss Fannie RIM
dali, Ell Paso, March /.
W. C. Snadden and Miss Simmie Rem
fro, Sherman, February %.
George Tsymsn and Miss Mamie Brown,
| Sherman, March 3.
d. Egbert aud Miss Mary Bodenhamer,
Houston county, February "a.
! r. s. Gould and Miss Rose Adam. Bry-
an, March ;.
| j. w. Moffett and Mrs Juanita. Nc
! Dowell, Austin, March |.
j II. L. Stuart and Miss Annie Pew, Ter
rell, March 8.
d. c. Ragsdale and Miss Annie BARRIER,
San Marcos, Mrrch
/. BoaZ Pike and Miss Georgia Schif,
Dallas, March >.
6. w. Selvidge and Mrs. Maggie
Howell, Mexia, February 81.
Thomas Scott and Miss Annie Mehring,
Sherman, March ,.
Perry Bradford and Miss Susie Taylor,
wills Point, February %.
| T. c. Clark and Miss Gertrude Pickard,
! lIOuSNltW, MATCH
E. B Hearns and Miss Sallie Scar
brough, Wood county, March ..
W. r. Hill and Miss Hanna Golden,
Marshall, March =.
]. A. Dinwiddie aid Miss Kate Cald-
well, Bennett, February 81.
John White and Mss Eta Woorshard,
Midway, February q?
Sam NJ. Flournoy and Miss Matte
Nichols, Winsboro, March 3.
James W. Bryant and Miss Alice Ma
ron, Y. Greenville, March ..
j. w. Blair and Miss Ida Haines, Wood
county, March 2.
L. I. Moore and Miss Evline Brown,
Waco, March 3.
G. d. Sleeper and Miss Maria Evans,
nehr, Robinson, March 3.
Wallace Woessner and Miss Ella
SmYthe, Corpus Christi, February IS.
Frank Crush and Miss Ida EmbrCe,
Embree, February q.
Robert Bllylock and Miss Matte Oates,
Houston, March 8.
DR.. T. A. Glass and Miss A. B Boone,
Cowhouse, February 81.
c. B. McC1fferty and Miss Belle Mar
TIN, WeatheIford, February 81.
Ed NJ Plumlee and Miss Agnes Has
furder, Sherman, March /.
d. S. Huff and Miss Eugenia Clara, Co.
tulls, March l.
II. a. Frasch and Miss L. Goldman,
Austin, March /.
August j. EIlers and Miss Maggie NJ.
Carter, Austin, March Q.
George Perrin and Miss Alice Nav,
Boerne, February %.
Emil Brown and Miss Anna Leonhard,
Boe1ne, February ~.
William L. Sill and Miss Florence E.
Oughten, Boerne, March 3.
DEATHS.
John Bradshaw, Limestone County,
February %.
Miss Emma Poole, near st. 10. Feb
ruary %.
Mrs. H. D. Bennett, San Antonio,
March ..
Captain W. H. Christian, Pittsburg,
February IS.
Miss jamie Faulkner, Jobnson's Point,
February 81.
Mrs. N. S. Clardy, Denton, February
%.
L. W. Collins, Van Zandt county,
March 9.
Joseph W. Ewing, Paris, March l.
Orso Youngblood, near Ennis, Feb
ruary 10.
Thomas Gossett, nesr Blossom Prairie,
February %.
John Summers, Houston, March 8.
DR.. NJ. Davenport, Denton, February
27.
William T. Jackson, Denton, February
27.
Mrs. Elizabeth Eckford, Mineola,
March |.
Christine Dannhaus, near Brennan,
February y.
Al. Killbuck, Gainesville, March 3.
Dr.. W. S. Balm, Caddo Mills, Febru-
airy %.
Robert c. Eckhart, near Yorktown,
February %.
Mrs. H. A Scott, Cleburne, February ;.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10

ed to result to laborers outside from speh
course. One point is indisputable, the
unemployment of imprisoned men rem
ders them pernicious, and is destructive
of the men themselves, and as the rfsjori-
ty of these go forth into the world sftes 8
term OF years society. atsethe ssferer N
last from that element which penitentla:
ries were designed ii reform. !
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10

THE wanton destructiyeness which has
characterized American hunters and
trsppers is becoming every day apparent,
and means are now being taken to pre-
vent this in the future as well as to re-
stock regions which this folly has de-
vaststed. 1t does not require memory
extending many years into the past for
hunters to recall the vast herds Of buffalo
that roaMed the prairies, where they are
no longer seen, and which exist only in
isolated herds on the extreme
western boundaries of the state.
Especially has the exterminating process
dealt hardly with fur-bearing animals,
and a project has been put on foot in
Canada that is worthy of attention in
other localities, and also for the reclams-
ton of other animals. This is the estab-
lishment of "beaver FARMS" where these
little animals are carefully guarded, and
every precaution taken to insure the rear
ing of their young. This fur is exceed
ingiy valuable, and the tanning OF the
beaver ye!Y easy. Under favorable con-
ditions, such as these, the otter might
be saved in Texas, and a careful regard
for breeding seasons still save to this state
much of the game that has been hereto
fore so recklesslY destroyed. As the
spring comes on the quail, ployer and
prairie hen should be unmolested, in or
der that they may reer their young and
populate the prairies. A prodigal waste
of any of q country's products can never
be aught but the part of unwisdom.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10
IN THE SECOND DISTRICT.
Houston County Convention.

Correspondence of the Gazette.
CROCKETT, TEX, March 8.-The Dem
ocratic county convention assembled here
to-day and appointed thirty delegates to
the Congre ssionsl convention at Pales-
tine tomorrow, to select candidate to
succeed the Hon. J. II. Reagan in the
United States Congress. Colonel A
Num- was unanimously Endorsed as the
choice of the Democracy of this county.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10
Notice, Contractors

The trustees of the public school of Sweet
water, Nolan county, Tex, will receive sealed
bids for The erection of a stone schoClhonee up
TO April i, 1857, u m, based upon plans and
specifications in custody etThop;as Trammell
& &C.. bankers, 1T Sweetlyat r, Tex. Each bid
must he accompaaiedeby 5000 bond, condi.
toned thatir such bid be accepted, the bidder
will enter'into contract and bond within ten
Gays thereafter. The right TO reject any and
all bids Is reserved.
G. r. WEST,
j. 5. DOUTHIT, Trustees
j. F. EIDEOS. }
THOMAS TRAMMELL,
Chairman Citizens Committee.
SweetWater Tex. March 1. 1881
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10
NINA AND AUGUST.
The Married by Proxy Pair Converse with
Thar Etngtr Tins Tnnchinp.

The Married by Proxy Pair Converse with
Their Finger Tips Touching.
CHICAGO, ILL, March S.-Nina Van
Zandt WAS permitted to enter the county
Jail to-day and for the frs. time in six
weeks had an opportunity to converse
with August Spies, the anarchist, to
whom she claims to be married by proxy
She was not permitted to go beyond the
cage, where visitors converse through 8
netting and iron bars with the pris.
oners. She and August Spies stood
with their finger tips together and chatted
in low voice for an hour, when other
visitors being expected, she hurried
aWaY
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10

THOMAS w. KNOX in the March num-
Der of the Forum under the title of
"Standing Room Only" argues that there
is danger of good mother earth becoming
over crowded. His arguments read
rather adversely to the theories propa-
gated by modern reformers, some Of
whom insist that the ratio of children in
families is rapidly decreasing, and to agi-
tators who are continually asserting
that the conditions CT human life
are becoming every day less favorable
to longevity. He bases his theory
on the increased rate of wages and the
cheapeniDg of life's comforts to the COM
mon people, to better skill in the science
of medicine in checking epidemic dis
eases, and to the better knowledge of the
demands of hygiene. Science Impair
tally deals with both sides, and nature
acts as her handmade; war, with the new
death-dealing agents, railroad accidents,
tire and earthquakes, few anarchist
bombs, and fashionable women, will do
much toward maintaining the equipoise.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-10

sESahacribers wishing their address
changed from one postofCe to another, must
give the oil address as well as the new, or the
change cannot be made.